Photos from Lilith Performance Studio/ Tsuneko Taniuchi (JP) 13 Feb 2009
NEXT PERFORMANCE UNDEAD IN THE NIGHT BY JILLIAN MCDONALD 28, 29 & 30 MAY 2009
Work period: 1 Mars - 1 Juni
Artist Talk at Lilith 12 May, 7PM
http://www.jillianmcdonald.net
Do you dare to enter the forest for a walk in the dark? Be very very quiet, you are not alone! In the twilight a bus transfers 8 people at a time out to the dim forest. Following a path in the dark various scenes will come alive along a 3 km long horror track.
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist with roots in Winnipeg and Newfoundland. She lives and works in New York. Her work in video, web art, and public intervention is often performative and relational. In her recent videos, she is interested in the American cult of celebrity, the fantasy that buoys extreme fandom, and the mechanisms of fear as entertainment at work in horror films. Her work examines the ways film genres affect their audiences, and the fan sub-cultures that fuel them. The presence of her image in this work serves not as a self-portrait, but as a projection of universal emotions such as desire or fear. Screen Kiss (2005) features romantic scenes from Hollywood films starring popular actors into which she inserts her image and manipulates the existing narrative in a soft critique of celebrity obsession.
In The Screaming (2007), Jillian trespasses digitally into popular horror films such as The Shining and Alien, screaming at the monsters to scare them away or blow them to smithereens. In public works, she engages an audience comprised of a very general public that is not necessarily expecting art or gathered in established arts venues. Zombies in Condoland (2008 Nuit Blanche, Toronto) is a large-scale performance where passersby are invited to play a part in the spectacle of a low budget horror film shoot.
Jillian is interested in Zombies and Vampires as radically different yet universally recognizable archetypes of horror film monsters that rarely if ever appear together. They share the evil power to turn victims into monsters, and caught in the unknowable position between "alive" and "dead" they have the power to fascinate and terrorize. Zombies and Vampires have their own iconographies and characterizations that are as different as night and day. Zombies moan as they stagger stiffly and unconsciously in packs towards their single goal – to catch and consume the flesh of the living. Gruesome and rotting, they are ordinary people reincarnated as characterless and soulless ghouls. Although they are brutish, vile, and almost unstoppable, they are neither resourceful nor clever, and are imminently expendable. Vampires slink and pose with agility as they move towards the forest's edge. Aristocratic, powerful, seductive, exotic, elegant, timeless, and mysterious, they have a rich immortal life and feed off human blood. Victims sometimes beg to be "turned" into these fascinating creatures. The performance Undead in the Night is a great collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio that involves over 100 actors, out in the forest in the middle of the night. The observer becomes a visitor in a living horror movie. The artist places these mythological creatures side by side, violates the codes and boundaries of horror genre, and creates an impossible scenario.
Jillian McDonald was born 1971 in Edmonton, Canada. Recent solo shows and projects include Moti Hasson Gallery in New York; La Sala Naranja in Valencia, Spain; YYZ in Toronto. Group exhibitions and festivals featuring her work include among others: The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany, MMOCA in Wisconsin, The Whitney Museum's Artport, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina, The Sundance Online Film Festival in Utah, La Biennale de Montréal, ISEA in Estonia. Mcdonald received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, Turbulence, The Experimental Television Center, The Verizon Foundation, and Pace University among others. Lilith Performance Studio is the first combined production studio and arena for visual art performance in Europe. The studio originates new large-scale performances by inviting visual artist to create exceptional performance pieces in a close collaboration with the Studio, from conceptualization to presentation.
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Lilith Performance Studio
is the first combined production studio and arena for visual art performance in Europe.
Lilith Performance Studio originates new productions and supports artists in the creation of exceptional new performance. Lilith works closely with the invited artists from conceptualization to presentation, providing financial and production support. Lilith Performance Studio is inviting eight emerging and established international visual artists each year to work and present a new performance. The artist stays for a working period between 2-8 weeks. Each artist is invited to pursue the performance project of her/his dreams, including the possibility to work freely with all parameters, such as location, time, setting, audience etc.
Lilith Performance Studio is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.
LPS explores performance and presents it to a wide audience. Their ambition is to be a cutting-edge practical research laboratory for performance, contributing to the overall development of the fields of visual and live art.
Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson are the founder and Artsitic Director for Lilith Performance Studio (LPS) in Malmö, Sweden.
Onsdag 19 november = Hercules And Love Affair feat. Kim Ann, Nomi, Jason, Carter, Guy, Morgan, Andrew & Andy live in consert @ Babel - "hedonistisk NY discodoftande house från Mr Paradise Garage himself Larry Levan". Köp din biljett genom att klicka på flyern
7 NOVEMBER @ CLUB30, STENGADE 30, KÖPENHAMN TA MONO D BUSSEN FRÅN MALMÖ!
Vi kan garantera en helgalen natt på Stengade i Nörrebro, Köpenhamn! Club30 har bokat in en fullkomligt enorm line-up med Tony Rohr i spetsen! Och speciellt för oss på andra sidan sundet kommer vi hyra in ett antal bussar som avgår från centralen i Malmö klockan 23:00 och som dessutom tar dig hem lika smidigt när gryningen kommer. På bussen kommer dj-bås installeras och festen dra i gång så fort ni kliver på!
Bussbiljett+ inträde kostar 220kr, biljetter kan ni köpa på:
Skivesset, Nobelvägen 103
Rundgång, Kristianstadsvägen 14
Eller betala direkt till bankgironr: 5746-0560 Ange för och efternamn så är din plats garanterad.
Babels hemsida är klar - http://www. babelmalmo. se - där du direkt på sidan kan köpa biljetter till följande konserter: Veronica Maggio (Pastell), Rebecka Törnqvist (Boomerang), Guru..s Jazzmatazz, Eric Gadd (Boomerang), Cut Copy (Pastell), Hercules And Love Affair, Emil Jensen, Docenterna (Boomerang). Just do it!
Lilith Performance Studio participates in Malmö Gallerinatt, September 27th 2008. Performance at 20.00, 23.00 and 24.00.
Free entrance. Welcome!
Since the start of Lilith Performance Studio 2007, the studio has originated twenty-nine performance productions. During Malmö Gallerinatt 2008, the studios chooses to present reenactments,remakes and interpretations to celebrate a number of works that has been and still are very influential in the way that we look upon performance and contemporary art today. Lilibeth Cuenca (DK) A Void, re-enacts work by Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Ana Mendieta, Shigeko Kubotas. Elin Lundgren (SE) interprets Pipilotti Rist’s video installation Ever Is Over All in a performance. Rist’s video installation comprises of two sharply contrasting projections accompanied by a melancholic melody. A Emma Pilipon (SE) Bad Media Karma, is a performance where she makes a re-make on an already prearranged reality.
Elin!!!! and Lilith!!! Sporry it took me so long to respond, busy life! it is so awesome to see your beautiful face!!! god bless the internet. congrats on your fine work. much love, Hollly
Stark o vacker performance av Leif, fast jag blev lite ledsen när jag såg den. Det kändes som om den handlade om hur en människa blir knäckt o nedbruten. så det var med blandade känslor jag lämnade føreställningen. Love to you all my amigos
..sist jag gjorde en performance hos Er så glömde jag mina vita ballerina skor. Hur som helst, jag lär nog höra av mig till Elin. När det går bra att hämta dem.
Jag hoppas allt går bra o att ni alla mår bra också!!
